Note 189 — INDEX OF AUTHORS.
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Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread. Anonymous.
Great Homer's birthplace seven rival cities claim, Too mighty such monopoly of Fame. Thomas Seward: On Shakespeare's Monument at Stratford-upon-Avon.
Seven cities warred for Homer being dead; Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head. Thomas Heywood: Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells.